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Newton Road is closed to through traffic between Six Forks and Falls of Neuse roads in North Carolina, after Monday night's torrential rain storm undermined the road and caused the pavement to collapse.

Less than 48 hours after a North Carolina state trooper died during a car chase, Wake County, NC, sheriff's deputies charged a Johnston County man with driving at 160 mph on his motorcycle after he refused to stop for them.

The Southern Environmental Law Center and two other groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its conclusion that building N.C. 540 across southern Wake County would not threaten the existence of two endangered mussels.

Authorities in North Carolina arrested a 22-year-old man early Wednesday, May 23, 2018, on a murder charge in the death of State Trooper Samuel Bullard, whose cruiser crashed Monday night while he and another trooper were chasing the man's car on Interstate 77.

North Carolina would offer a third standard license plate bearing the national motto In God We Trust and the state motto To Be Rather Than To Seem, if the General Assembly approves a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Bert Jones.

A 24-year-old North Carolina state trooper died Monday night, May 21, 2018, when his cruiser crashed into a bridge abutment on Interstate 77 in the central part of the state while he and another trooper were chasing a car that had refused to stop at a checkpoint, the State Highway Patrol said.

Heavy rains Monday night, May 21, 2018, caused multiple temporary road problems, but Newton Road in Raleigh, NC, will be closed longer because a sinkhole opened up across the road during the storm, media reports said.

Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, explains why the national average price of gasoline is now its priciest since July 2015. GasBuddy is a smartphone app that uses crowd-sourced information to track gas prices.

Gas prices have risen nearly 12 cents a gallon in North Carolina in the last month and with Memorial Day and summer vacation season approaching are now about 56 cents higher than they were a year ago, according to AAA.

The identity of the driver whose Chrysler 300 hit and killed 62-year-old David Gerard Abowd two weeks ago still eludes Garner, NC, police, and they said Monday, May 21, 2018, that they are offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to that driver's identity

At least one person died when a church van crashed and overturned in a pond in Wake County near Rolesville on Sunday, May 20, 2018, the Wake sheriff's office said. The van apparently was from First Missionary Baptist Church in Smithfield.

The new passenger-only ferry M/V Ocracoke Express that the state expected would begin carrying people between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands this summer won't be ready after all. It is being built by US Worksboats near Swansboro.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has teamed up with the insurance company Geico to erect "safe phone zone" signs along highways urging drivers to pull in to public rest areas to call, text or surf the web.

Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, explains why the national average price of gasoline is now its priciest since July 2015. GasBuddy is a smartphone app that uses crowd-sourced information to track gas prices.